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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TitleDrop "It was so hot. It was daylight all the time. There was a midnight sun..."]]'']]
->'''Creator/RodSerling''': The word that Mrs. Bronson is unable to put into the hot, still, sodden air is 'doomed,' because the people you've just seen have been handed a death sentence. One month ago, the Earth suddenly changed its elliptical orbit and in doing so began to follow a path which gradually, moment by moment, day by day, took it closer to the sun. And all of man's little devices to stir up the air are now no longer luxuries—they happen to be pitiful and panicky keys to survival. The time is five minutes to twelve, midnight. There is no more darkness. The place is New York City and this is the eve of the end, because even at midnight it's high noon, the hottest day in history, and you're about to spend in the Twilight Zone.
Air date: November 17, 1961
For reasons unnrevealed, the Earth had fallen out of its orbit last month and is now hurdling towards the sun, moving closer to it each day. In New York City, an artist named Norma (Creator/LoisNettleton) watches as her neighbors who haven't succumbed to the extreme heat leave the apartment building to head down south for "colder" climates. The only people who haven't left yet are herself and her landlady, Mrs. Bronson (Betty Garde). Electricity is gradually cut off, water is restricted to one hour per day, and the streets are either deserted or full of looters. Both women try to support each other in the last days of humankind, but they grow weaker as the end of the world comes closer, with Norma accidentally burning her hand on the windowsill and Mrs. Bronson becoming delirious. She begs Norma to paint something cold rather than continually painting the sun and burning cities.
A looter soon enters the building, but Norma and Mrs. Bronson lock the door. He begs to be let in, but Norma pulls a gun and tells him to go away. Against her orders, Mrs. Bronson unlocks the door and lets him in. He feverishly drinks all the water they have left, but upon seeing their distressed faces, he breaks down and apologizes for scaring them. He claims the oppressive heat is responsible for the deaths of his wife and infant son, which had driven him insane, as well as the fact that Norma's paintings remind him of his late wife's artwork. Norma meekly nods to the man before he stumbles out of the building, rambling that he's not a terrible person to himself. In an attempt to console her, Norma shows Mrs. Bronson a painting of a waterfall she made. Delirious, the landlady imagines swimming in splashing in the imaginary water and praises abour how cool it is before succumbing to the heat and dropping dead. As the heat gets stronger and stronger, Norma watches in horror as the thermometer bursts and her paintings melt around her, screaming and collapsing as well.
The scene then cuts back to the apartment, this time at night, with heavy snow falling outside. Norma is bedridden with a high fever and being attended to by Mrs. Bronson and a doctor, having been dreaming of the oppressive heat all along. As the doctor leaves, a delirious Norma tells Mrs. Bronson how happy she is that's it's cool again. However, a private conversation between the doctor and Mrs. Bronson makes it clear that things are actually ''far'' from well off: the Earth has indeed fallen out of its orbit, but it's moving ''away'' from the sun, which will ultimately reduce it to an inhospitable ball of ice. As Mrs. Bronson reenters, the delirious Norma wistfully asks how great it is to have no sun at all, to which Mrs. Bronson hesitatingly agrees.
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!!The Midnight Tropes:
* AllJustADream: The episode's plot, where the world is ending because Earth is moving closer to the sun and is being bombarded with everlasting heat, was actually a dream that an ill and delirious Norma was having. Unfortunately, in reality, the world is still going to end, because Earth is moving ''away'' from the sun and will ultimately freeze over completely.
* ApocalypseAnarchy: A news report early in the episode warns of looters and wandering maniacs prowling the New York streets, before he begins ranting about the end of the world and is forcibly taken off-air.
* ApocalypseHow: It's already a [[ApocalypseHow/Class1 Class 1]], guaranteed to become a [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX Class X]], as the Earth is spiraling closer and closer to the sun. Even with the ending revelation that Earth is spiraling further and further from the sun, we're still looking at either a [[ApocalypseHow/Class5 5]] or [[ApocalypseHow/Class6 6]], maybe [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 4]] if life close to hydrothermal vents survives.
* BigApplesauce: The episode is set in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, which has been largely abandoned as everyone moved to find colder temperatures.
* BottleEpisode: Except for two scenes in the hallway, the plot of the episode never leaves Norma's apartment.
* ComicBookAdaptation: The episode was adapted as a graphic novel by Walker Paperback in 2009.
* CruelTwistEnding: As per the doctor's exposition, Earth isn't moving ''towards'' the sun. It's moving ''away'' from it.
* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: A radio DJ deviates from the script to blurt out the reality of the situation. As a result, he's forcefully taken off the air.
* DeathOfAChild: The looter who breaks into Norma's apartment and drinks all the water she had left tells her that his wife [[DeathByChildbirth died from childbirth complications]], and his newborn baby died soon after (likely from the heat). It's subverted when it turns out to be part of Norma's dream.
* DisneyDeath: Mrs. Bronson dies in Norma's dream, but she turns out to be alive and well when Norma comes out of her delirium. Neither she, nor Norma, nor anyone else on Earth will be alive for long, unfortunately.
* DownerEnding: Earth is doomed to freeze into a giant ball of ice in only a few weeks, ensuring that humanity goes extinct.
* EndlessDaytime: The Earth is spiraling closer and closer to the sun, and as a result, there is perpetual daylight outside. It turns out in the end that Norma is dreaming, and [[TheNightThatNeverEnds the Earth is actually spiraling AWAY from the sun, meaning that it will freeze over.]] [[note]]In reality, for this trope to work, the Earth would have to become tidally-locked, meaning the other side would be constantly dark and probably somewhat less hot. But then, since it's AllJustADream, it doesn't have to make sense.[[/note]]
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: It occurs both in Norma's dream via the planet plunging into the sun, and in real life via the planet hurdling away from the sun and freezing over. It's made uncomfortably clear in both scenarios that all anyone can do is hold off the inevitable destruction of the Earth and everyone on it.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Mrs. Bronson tells Norma that she heard on the radio why it's getting hotter: because the Earth is getting closer to the sun.
* FailedASpotCheck: Mrs. Bronson opens the door without hearing the front door close, despite Norma saying seconds ago that she wanted to hear the looter leave through the front door.
* FeverDreamEpisode: Most of the episode is revealed to be the result of Norma dreaming while under a high fever.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Norma says "I keep getting this crazy thought. This crazy thought that I'm gonna wake up and none of this will have happened." That's indeed what happens in the end, but the end of the world is still going to occur.
** It seems odd that several characters are wearing long-sleeved clothes in spite of the scorching heat. [[spoiler: This foreshadows that Norma is actually dreaming]].
* GhostCity: New York City has been nearly evacuated due to the extreme heat, as people are packing up and travelling to cooler regions.
* GlacialApocalypse: ZigZagged. The episode takes place in a world where it's getting hotter all the time because Earth is getting closer and closer to the sun. It turns out that this scenario is AllJustADream, but in actuality, Earth is getting colder and colder because it's moving ''away'' from the sun, to the point where it will eventually become an uninhabitable ball of ice.
* {{Irony}}: In the end, Norma, having woken up, remembers her dream about the crushing heat and fantasizes about coldness and darkness. In truth, this excessive cold and dark are ''precisely'' what's causing the end of the world.
-->'''Norma''': It was horrible. There was a midnight sun, no night at all. Mmmm... isn't it nice to have coolness and darkness?\\
'''Mrs. Bronson''': (''apprehensively'') ...yes, dear. It's wonderful.
** If you look closely, Mrs. Bronson appears to be smiling when Norma describes "a midnight sun, no night at all."
* MinimalistCast: Only seven characters show up throughout the episode.
* NoAntagonist: The closest thing the story has to one is the sun itself. Even the looter who breaks into Norma's apartment says he wouldn't hurt them and he was just desperate for some water.
* ReadingsBlewUpTheScale: The thermometer on Norma's wall eventually bursts from the extreme heat.
* SanitySlippage: When she sees Norma's latest painting, a waterfall, Mrs. Bronson starts rambling about how wonderful the water is and how they should go swimming, shortly before she collapses and dies.
* ScreamingWoman: Norma screams to no end as the heat increases drastically, becoming so hot that her paintings begin melting right off the canvas.
* ThousandYardStare: As Norma recounts her nightmare about a world with a neverending sun, [[DramaticIrony she states her relief that everything is cool again.]] Mrs. Bronson's only response is to stare off into the distance and agree [[BlatantLies how wonderful it is]], not having the heart to tell Norma that she and the rest of the world are still doomed.
* TitleDrop: The last lines of the episode, as Norma describes her dream.
* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: A weather reporter gradually goes off-script, though never raising his voice above "1950s radio reporter" levels, passes along the idea that he's panicking, but nothing matters with the end of the world. He's last heard struggling to fight back against the men who forcefully take him off air.
* WhamShot: When the world heats up so much that Norma's paintings melt and the artist herself collapses, we suddenly cut back to the thermometer that burst in the scorching heat. It's fixed and now reads -10 degrees, as snow falls heavily outside the window.
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->'''Rod Serling''': The poles of fear. The extremes of how the Earth might conceivably be doomed. Minor exercise in the care and feeding of a nightmare, respectfully submitted by all the thermometer-watchers in the Twilight Zone.
[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TitleDrop "It was so hot. It was daylight all the time. There was a midnight sun..."]]'']]
->'''Creator/RodSerling''': The word that Mrs. Bronson is unable to put into the hot, still, sodden air is 'doomed,' because the people you've just seen have been handed a death sentence. One month ago, the Earth suddenly changed its elliptical orbit and in doing so began to follow a path which gradually, moment by moment, day by day, took it closer to the sun. And all of man's little devices to stir up the air are now no longer luxuries—they happen to be pitiful and panicky keys to survival. The time is five minutes to twelve, midnight. There is no more darkness. The place is New York City and this is the eve of the end, because even at midnight it's high noon, the hottest day in history, and you're about to spend in the Twilight Zone.
Air date: November 17, 1961
For reasons unnrevealed, the Earth had fallen out of its orbit last month and is now hurdling towards the sun, moving closer to it each day. In New York City, an artist named Norma (Creator/LoisNettleton) watches as her neighbors who haven't succumbed to the extreme heat leave the apartment building to head down south for "colder" climates. The only people who haven't left yet are herself and her landlady, Mrs. Bronson (Betty Garde). Electricity is gradually cut off, water is restricted to one hour per day, and the streets are either deserted or full of looters. Both women try to support each other in the last days of humankind, but they grow weaker as the end of the world comes closer, with Norma accidentally burning her hand on the windowsill and Mrs. Bronson becoming delirious. She begs Norma to paint something cold rather than continually painting the sun and burning cities.
A looter soon enters the building, but Norma and Mrs. Bronson lock the door. He begs to be let in, but Norma pulls a gun and tells him to go away. Against her orders, Mrs. Bronson unlocks the door and lets him in. He feverishly drinks all the water they have left, but upon seeing their distressed faces, he breaks down and apologizes for scaring them. He claims the oppressive heat is responsible for the deaths of his wife and infant son, which had driven him insane, as well as the fact that Norma's paintings remind him of his late wife's artwork. Norma meekly nods to the man before he stumbles out of the building, rambling that he's not a terrible person to himself. In an attempt to console her, Norma shows Mrs. Bronson a painting of a waterfall she made. Delirious, the landlady imagines swimming in splashing in the imaginary water and praises abour how cool it is before succumbing to the heat and dropping dead. As the heat gets stronger and stronger, Norma watches in horror as the thermometer bursts and her paintings melt around her, screaming and collapsing as well.
The scene then cuts back to the apartment, this time at night, with heavy snow falling outside. Norma is bedridden with a high fever and being attended to by Mrs. Bronson and a doctor, having been dreaming of the oppressive heat all along. As the doctor leaves, a delirious Norma tells Mrs. Bronson how happy she is that's it's cool again. However, a private conversation between the doctor and Mrs. Bronson makes it clear that things are actually ''far'' from well off: the Earth has indeed fallen out of its orbit, but it's moving ''away'' from the sun, which will ultimately reduce it to an inhospitable ball of ice. As Mrs. Bronson reenters, the delirious Norma wistfully asks how great it is to have no sun at all, to which Mrs. Bronson hesitatingly agrees.
----
!!The Midnight Tropes:
* AllJustADream: The episode's plot, where the world is ending because Earth is moving closer to the sun and is being bombarded with everlasting heat, was actually a dream that an ill and delirious Norma was having. Unfortunately, in reality, the world is still going to end, because Earth is moving ''away'' from the sun and will ultimately freeze over completely.
* ApocalypseAnarchy: A news report early in the episode warns of looters and wandering maniacs prowling the New York streets, before he begins ranting about the end of the world and is forcibly taken off-air.
* ApocalypseHow: It's already a [[ApocalypseHow/Class1 Class 1]], guaranteed to become a [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX Class X]], as the Earth is spiraling closer and closer to the sun. Even with the ending revelation that Earth is spiraling further and further from the sun, we're still looking at either a [[ApocalypseHow/Class5 5]] or [[ApocalypseHow/Class6 6]], maybe [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 4]] if life close to hydrothermal vents survives.
* BigApplesauce: The episode is set in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, which has been largely abandoned as everyone moved to find colder temperatures.
* BottleEpisode: Except for two scenes in the hallway, the plot of the episode never leaves Norma's apartment.
* ComicBookAdaptation: The episode was adapted as a graphic novel by Walker Paperback in 2009.
* CruelTwistEnding: As per the doctor's exposition, Earth isn't moving ''towards'' the sun. It's moving ''away'' from it.
* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: A radio DJ deviates from the script to blurt out the reality of the situation. As a result, he's forcefully taken off the air.
* DeathOfAChild: The looter who breaks into Norma's apartment and drinks all the water she had left tells her that his wife [[DeathByChildbirth died from childbirth complications]], and his newborn baby died soon after (likely from the heat). It's subverted when it turns out to be part of Norma's dream.
* DisneyDeath: Mrs. Bronson dies in Norma's dream, but she turns out to be alive and well when Norma comes out of her delirium. Neither she, nor Norma, nor anyone else on Earth will be alive for long, unfortunately.
* DownerEnding: Earth is doomed to freeze into a giant ball of ice in only a few weeks, ensuring that humanity goes extinct.
* EndlessDaytime: The Earth is spiraling closer and closer to the sun, and as a result, there is perpetual daylight outside. It turns out in the end that Norma is dreaming, and [[TheNightThatNeverEnds the Earth is actually spiraling AWAY from the sun, meaning that it will freeze over.]] [[note]]In reality, for this trope to work, the Earth would have to become tidally-locked, meaning the other side would be constantly dark and probably somewhat less hot. But then, since it's AllJustADream, it doesn't have to make sense.[[/note]]
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: It occurs both in Norma's dream via the planet plunging into the sun, and in real life via the planet hurdling away from the sun and freezing over. It's made uncomfortably clear in both scenarios that all anyone can do is hold off the inevitable destruction of the Earth and everyone on it.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Mrs. Bronson tells Norma that she heard on the radio why it's getting hotter: because the Earth is getting closer to the sun.
* FailedASpotCheck: Mrs. Bronson opens the door without hearing the front door close, despite Norma saying seconds ago that she wanted to hear the looter leave through the front door.
* FeverDreamEpisode: Most of the episode is revealed to be the result of Norma dreaming while under a high fever.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Norma says "I keep getting this crazy thought. This crazy thought that I'm gonna wake up and none of this will have happened." That's indeed what happens in the end, but the end of the world is still going to occur.
** It seems odd that several characters are wearing long-sleeved clothes in spite of the scorching heat. [[spoiler: This foreshadows that Norma is actually dreaming]].
* GhostCity: New York City has been nearly evacuated due to the extreme heat, as people are packing up and travelling to cooler regions.
* GlacialApocalypse: ZigZagged. The episode takes place in a world where it's getting hotter all the time because Earth is getting closer and closer to the sun. It turns out that this scenario is AllJustADream, but in actuality, Earth is getting colder and colder because it's moving ''away'' from the sun, to the point where it will eventually become an uninhabitable ball of ice.
* {{Irony}}: In the end, Norma, having woken up, remembers her dream about the crushing heat and fantasizes about coldness and darkness. In truth, this excessive cold and dark are ''precisely'' what's causing the end of the world.
-->'''Norma''': It was horrible. There was a midnight sun, no night at all. Mmmm... isn't it nice to have coolness and darkness?\\
'''Mrs. Bronson''': (''apprehensively'') ...yes, dear. It's wonderful.
** If you look closely, Mrs. Bronson appears to be smiling when Norma describes "a midnight sun, no night at all."
* MinimalistCast: Only seven characters show up throughout the episode.
* NoAntagonist: The closest thing the story has to one is the sun itself. Even the looter who breaks into Norma's apartment says he wouldn't hurt them and he was just desperate for some water.
* ReadingsBlewUpTheScale: The thermometer on Norma's wall eventually bursts from the extreme heat.
* SanitySlippage: When she sees Norma's latest painting, a waterfall, Mrs. Bronson starts rambling about how wonderful the water is and how they should go swimming, shortly before she collapses and dies.
* ScreamingWoman: Norma screams to no end as the heat increases drastically, becoming so hot that her paintings begin melting right off the canvas.
* ThousandYardStare: As Norma recounts her nightmare about a world with a neverending sun, [[DramaticIrony she states her relief that everything is cool again.]] Mrs. Bronson's only response is to stare off into the distance and agree [[BlatantLies how wonderful it is]], not having the heart to tell Norma that she and the rest of the world are still doomed.
* TitleDrop: The last lines of the episode, as Norma describes her dream.
* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: A weather reporter gradually goes off-script, though never raising his voice above "1950s radio reporter" levels, passes along the idea that he's panicking, but nothing matters with the end of the world. He's last heard struggling to fight back against the men who forcefully take him off air.
* WhamShot: When the world heats up so much that Norma's paintings melt and the artist herself collapses, we suddenly cut back to the thermometer that burst in the scorching heat. It's fixed and now reads -10 degrees, as snow falls heavily outside the window.
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->'''Rod Serling''': The poles of fear. The extremes of how the Earth might conceivably be doomed. Minor exercise in the care and feeding of a nightmare, respectfully submitted by all the thermometer-watchers in the Twilight Zone.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TitleDrop "It was so hot. It was daylight all the time. There was a midnight sun..."]]'']]
->'''Creator/RodSerling''': The word that Mrs. Bronson is unable to put into the hot, still, sodden air is 'doomed,' because the people you've just seen have been handed a death sentence. One month ago, the Earth suddenly changed its elliptical orbit and in doing so began to follow a path which gradually, moment by moment, day by day, took it closer to the sun. And all of man's little devices to stir up the air are now no longer luxuries—they happen to be pitiful and panicky keys to survival. The time is five minutes to twelve, midnight. There is no more darkness. The place is New York City and this is the eve of the end, because even at midnight it's high noon, the hottest day in history, and you're about to spend in the Twilight Zone.
Air date: November 17, 1961
For reasons unnrevealed, the Earth had fallen out of its orbit last month and is now hurdling towards the sun, moving closer to it each day. In New York City, an artist named Norma (Creator/LoisNettleton) watches as her neighbors who haven't succumbed to the extreme heat leave the apartment building to head down south for "colder" climates. The only people who haven't left yet are herself and her landlady, Mrs. Bronson (Betty Garde). Electricity is gradually cut off, water is restricted to one hour per day, and the streets are either deserted or full of looters. Both women try to support each other in the last days of humankind, but they grow weaker as the end of the world comes closer, with Norma accidentally burning her hand on the windowsill and Mrs. Bronson becoming delirious. She begs Norma to paint something cold rather than continually painting the sun and burning cities.
A looter soon enters the building, but Norma and Mrs. Bronson lock the door. He begs to be let in, but Norma pulls a gun and tells him to go away. Against her orders, Mrs. Bronson unlocks the door and lets him in. He feverishly drinks all the water they have left, but upon seeing their distressed faces, he breaks down and apologizes for scaring them. He claims the oppressive heat is responsible for the deaths of his wife and infant son, which had driven him insane, as well as the fact that Norma's paintings remind him of his late wife's artwork. Norma meekly nods to the man before he stumbles out of the building, rambling that he's not a terrible person to himself. In an attempt to console her, Norma shows Mrs. Bronson a painting of a waterfall she made. Delirious, the landlady imagines swimming in splashing in the imaginary water and praises abour how cool it is before succumbing to the heat and dropping dead. As the heat gets stronger and stronger, Norma watches in horror as the thermometer bursts and her paintings melt around her, screaming and collapsing as well.
The scene then cuts back to the apartment, this time at night, with heavy snow falling outside. Norma is bedridden with a high fever and being attended to by Mrs. Bronson and a doctor, having been dreaming of the oppressive heat all along. As the doctor leaves, a delirious Norma tells Mrs. Bronson how happy she is that's it's cool again. However, a private conversation between the doctor and Mrs. Bronson makes it clear that things are actually ''far'' from well off: the Earth has indeed fallen out of its orbit, but it's moving ''away'' from the sun, which will ultimately reduce it to an inhospitable ball of ice. As Mrs. Bronson reenters, the delirious Norma wistfully asks how great it is to have no sun at all, to which Mrs. Bronson hesitatingly agrees.
----
!!The Midnight Tropes:
* AllJustADream: The episode's plot, where the world is ending because Earth is moving closer to the sun and is being bombarded with everlasting heat, was actually a dream that an ill and delirious Norma was having. Unfortunately, in reality, the world is still going to end, because Earth is moving ''away'' from the sun and will ultimately freeze over completely.
* ApocalypseAnarchy: A news report early in the episode warns of looters and wandering maniacs prowling the New York streets, before he begins ranting about the end of the world and is forcibly taken off-air.
* ApocalypseHow: It's already a [[ApocalypseHow/Class1 Class 1]], guaranteed to become a [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX Class X]], as the Earth is spiraling closer and closer to the sun. Even with the ending revelation that Earth is spiraling further and further from the sun, we're still looking at either a [[ApocalypseHow/Class5 5]] or [[ApocalypseHow/Class6 6]], maybe [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 4]] if life close to hydrothermal vents survives.
* BigApplesauce: The episode is set in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, which has been largely abandoned as everyone moved to find colder temperatures.
* BottleEpisode: Except for two scenes in the hallway, the plot of the episode never leaves Norma's apartment.
* ComicBookAdaptation: The episode was adapted as a graphic novel by Walker Paperback in 2009.
* CruelTwistEnding: As per the doctor's exposition, Earth isn't moving ''towards'' the sun. It's moving ''away'' from it.
* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: A radio DJ deviates from the script to blurt out the reality of the situation. As a result, he's forcefully taken off the air.
* DeathOfAChild: The looter who breaks into Norma's apartment and drinks all the water she had left tells her that his wife [[DeathByChildbirth died from childbirth complications]], and his newborn baby died soon after (likely from the heat). It's subverted when it turns out to be part of Norma's dream.
* DisneyDeath: Mrs. Bronson dies in Norma's dream, but she turns out to be alive and well when Norma comes out of her delirium. Neither she, nor Norma, nor anyone else on Earth will be alive for long, unfortunately.
* DownerEnding: Earth is doomed to freeze into a giant ball of ice in only a few weeks, ensuring that humanity goes extinct.
* EndlessDaytime: The Earth is spiraling closer and closer to the sun, and as a result, there is perpetual daylight outside. It turns out in the end that Norma is dreaming, and [[TheNightThatNeverEnds the Earth is actually spiraling AWAY from the sun, meaning that it will freeze over.]] [[note]]In reality, for this trope to work, the Earth would have to become tidally-locked, meaning the other side would be constantly dark and probably somewhat less hot. But then, since it's AllJustADream, it doesn't have to make sense.[[/note]]
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: It occurs both in Norma's dream via the planet plunging into the sun, and in real life via the planet hurdling away from the sun and freezing over. It's made uncomfortably clear in both scenarios that all anyone can do is hold off the inevitable destruction of the Earth and everyone on it.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Mrs. Bronson tells Norma that she heard on the radio why it's getting hotter: because the Earth is getting closer to the sun.
* FailedASpotCheck: Mrs. Bronson opens the door without hearing the front door close, despite Norma saying seconds ago that she wanted to hear the looter leave through the front door.
* FeverDreamEpisode: Most of the episode is revealed to be the result of Norma dreaming while under a high fever.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Norma says "I keep getting this crazy thought. This crazy thought that I'm gonna wake up and none of this will have happened." That's indeed what happens in the end, but the end of the world is still going to occur.
** It seems odd that several characters are wearing long-sleeved clothes in spite of the scorching heat. [[spoiler: This foreshadows that Norma is actually dreaming]].
* GhostCity: New York City has been nearly evacuated due to the extreme heat, as people are packing up and travelling to cooler regions.
* GlacialApocalypse: ZigZagged. The episode takes place in a world where it's getting hotter all the time because Earth is getting closer and closer to the sun. It turns out that this scenario is AllJustADream, but in actuality, Earth is getting colder and colder because it's moving ''away'' from the sun, to the point where it will eventually become an uninhabitable ball of ice.
* {{Irony}}: In the end, Norma, having woken up, remembers her dream about the crushing heat and fantasizes about coldness and darkness. In truth, this excessive cold and dark are ''precisely'' what's causing the end of the world.
-->'''Norma''': It was horrible. There was a midnight sun, no night at all. Mmmm... isn't it nice to have coolness and darkness?\\
'''Mrs. Bronson''': (''apprehensively'') ...yes, dear. It's wonderful.
** If you look closely, Mrs. Bronson appears to be smiling when Norma describes "a midnight sun, no night at all."
* MinimalistCast: Only seven characters show up throughout the episode.
* NoAntagonist: The closest thing the story has to one is the sun itself. Even the looter who breaks into Norma's apartment says he wouldn't hurt them and he was just desperate for some water.
* ReadingsBlewUpTheScale: The thermometer on Norma's wall eventually bursts from the extreme heat.
* SanitySlippage: When she sees Norma's latest painting, a waterfall, Mrs. Bronson starts rambling about how wonderful the water is and how they should go swimming, shortly before she collapses and dies.
* ScreamingWoman: Norma screams to no end as the heat increases drastically, becoming so hot that her paintings begin melting right off the canvas.
* ThousandYardStare: As Norma recounts her nightmare about a world with a neverending sun, [[DramaticIrony she states her relief that everything is cool again.]] Mrs. Bronson's only response is to stare off into the distance and agree [[BlatantLies how wonderful it is]], not having the heart to tell Norma that she and the rest of the world are still doomed.
* TitleDrop: The last lines of the episode, as Norma describes her dream.
* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: A weather reporter gradually goes off-script, though never raising his voice above "1950s radio reporter" levels, passes along the idea that he's panicking, but nothing matters with the end of the world. He's last heard struggling to fight back against the men who forcefully take him off air.
* WhamShot: When the world heats up so much that Norma's paintings melt and the artist herself collapses, we suddenly cut back to the thermometer that burst in the scorching heat. It's fixed and now reads -10 degrees, as snow falls heavily outside the window.
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->'''Rod Serling''': The poles of fear. The extremes of how the Earth might conceivably be doomed. Minor exercise in the care and feeding of a nightmare, respectfully submitted by all the thermometer-watchers in the Twilight Zone.
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The Earth has been spun out of its orbit, causing it to move closer to the sun each day.
In New York City, an artist named Norma (Creator/LoisNettleton) watches as all her neighbors either leave their apartment building to head to "colder" climates or succumb to the heat. The only ones left are her and her landlady, Mrs. Bronson (Betty Garde). Electricity is gradually cut off, water is turned on in the city for only hours at a time, and the streets are deserted and full of looters. Both women try to support each other but grow weaker as the Apocalypse comes closer. Norma burns her hand on the windowsill and Mrs. Bronson becomes delirious. She begs Norma to paint something cold rather than continually drawing the sun and burning cities.
A looter enters the building, but Norma and Mrs. Bronson lock the door. He begs to be let in, but Norma pulls out a gun and tells him to go away. Mrs. Bronson unlocks the door and lets him in. He feverishly drinks all their water. Seeing their distressed faces, he breaks down and apologies for scaring then. He claims the oppressive heat and the deaths of his wife and infant son have driven him insane. Norma meekly nods before he stumbles out of the building.
In an attempt to console her, Norma shows Mrs. Bronson a painting of a waterfall she has made. Delirious, she splashes in the imaginary water and praises how cool it is before succumbing to the heat and collapsing on the floor. Norma watches in horror as her paintings melt around her, and she screams and falls as well.
The scene cuts to the apartment at night, with a heavy snowfall going on outside. Norma is bedridden with a high fever and being attended to by a doctor and Mrs. Bronson. Norma's dreams of the oppressive heat were all fake. As the doctor leaves, a delirious Norma tells Mrs. Bronson how happy she is that's it's cool again. However, conversation between the doctor and Mrs. Bronson makes it clear that, far from all being well, reality is facing its own crisis: the Earth is moving ''away'' from the sun, not towards it, meaning the world will freeze to death.
In New York City, an artist named Norma (Creator/LoisNettleton) watches as all her neighbors either leave their apartment building to head to "colder" climates or succumb to the heat. The only ones left are her and her landlady, Mrs. Bronson (Betty Garde). Electricity is gradually cut off, water is turned on in the city for only hours at a time, and the streets are deserted and full of looters. Both women try to support each other but grow weaker as the Apocalypse comes closer. Norma burns her hand on the windowsill and Mrs. Bronson becomes delirious. She begs Norma to paint something cold rather than continually drawing the sun and burning cities.
A looter enters the building, but Norma and Mrs. Bronson lock the door. He begs to be let in, but Norma pulls out a gun and tells him to go away. Mrs. Bronson unlocks the door and lets him in. He feverishly drinks all their water. Seeing their distressed faces, he breaks down and apologies for scaring then. He claims the oppressive heat and the deaths of his wife and infant son have driven him insane. Norma meekly nods before he stumbles out of the building.
In an attempt to console her, Norma shows Mrs. Bronson a painting of a waterfall she has made. Delirious, she splashes in the imaginary water and praises how cool it is before succumbing to the heat and collapsing on the floor. Norma watches in horror as her paintings melt around her, and she screams and falls as well.
The scene cuts to the apartment at night, with a heavy snowfall going on outside. Norma is bedridden with a high fever and being attended to by a doctor and Mrs. Bronson. Norma's dreams of the oppressive heat were all fake. As the doctor leaves, a delirious Norma tells Mrs. Bronson how happy she is that's it's cool again. However, conversation between the doctor and Mrs. Bronson makes it clear that, far from all being well, reality is facing its own crisis: the Earth is moving ''away'' from the sun, not towards it, meaning the world will freeze to death.
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A looter soon enters the building, but Norma and Mrs. Bronson lock the door. He begs to be let in, but Norma pulls
The scene then cuts back to the
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* AllJustADream: The Earth heating up. Not that the reality isn't just as bad.
* ApocalypseAnarchy: A news report warns of looters and wandering maniacs.
* ApocalypseHow: Already a [[ApocalypseHow/Class1 Class 1]], guaranteed to become a [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX Class X]] with the Earth spiraling closer and closer to the sun. Even with the end revelation, you're still looking at either a [[ApocalypseHow/Class5 5]] or [[ApocalypseHow/Class6 6]], maybe [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 4]] if life around hydrothermal vents survives.
* BigApplesauce: The episode is set in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity.
* BottleEpisode: Except for two scenes in the hallway, the plot never leaves Norma's apartment.
* ComicBookAdaptation: This episode was adapted as a graphic novel by Walker Paperback in 2009.
* CruelTwistEnding: The Earth isn't moving ''towards'' the sun... it's moving ''away'' from it.
* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: A radio DJ deviates from the script to tell the reality of the situation, he gets forcefully taken off the air.
* DeathOfAChild: The looter who breaks in and drinks all of Norma's water tells her his wife [[DeathByChildbirth died from childbirth complications]], then his newborn baby died (likely from the heat). Subverted when it turns out to be part of Norma's dream.
* DisneyDeath: Mrs. Bronson dies in Norma's dream, but turns out to be alive and well when Norma comes out of her delirium. Although neither she, nor Norma, nor anyone else on Earth will be alive for long...
* DownerEnding: Humanity is doomed to freeze to death in only a few weeks.
* EndlessDaytime: The Earth is spiraling closer and closer to the sun, and it is perpetually day. Except it turns out the main character is dreaming, and [[TheNightThatNeverEnds the Earth is actually spiraling AWAY from the sun and freezing.]] [[note]]In reality, for this trope to work, the Earth would have to become tidally-locked, meaning the other side would be constantly dark and probably somewhat less hot. But then, since it's AllJustADream, it doesn't have to make sense.[[/note]]
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: In both the dream and real life. It's made uncomfortably clear in both that all people can do is hold off the inevitable extinction of the Earth and everyone on it.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Mrs. Bronson tells Norma she heard on the radio that it's getting hotter because... the Earth is getting closer to the sun.
* FailedASpotCheck: Mrs. Bronson opens the door without hearing the front door shut, despite Norma just saying she wanted to hear the burglar leave through the front door.
* FeverDreamEpisode: Most of the episode is Norma dreaming while under a high fever.
* ApocalypseAnarchy: A news report warns of looters and wandering maniacs.
* ApocalypseHow: Already a [[ApocalypseHow/Class1 Class 1]], guaranteed to become a [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX Class X]] with the Earth spiraling closer and closer to the sun. Even with the end revelation, you're still looking at either a [[ApocalypseHow/Class5 5]] or [[ApocalypseHow/Class6 6]], maybe [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 4]] if life around hydrothermal vents survives.
* BigApplesauce: The episode is set in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity.
* BottleEpisode: Except for two scenes in the hallway, the plot never leaves Norma's apartment.
* ComicBookAdaptation: This episode was adapted as a graphic novel by Walker Paperback in 2009.
* CruelTwistEnding: The Earth isn't moving ''towards'' the sun... it's moving ''away'' from it.
* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: A radio DJ deviates from the script to tell the reality of the situation, he gets forcefully taken off the air.
* DeathOfAChild: The looter who breaks in and drinks all of Norma's water tells her his wife [[DeathByChildbirth died from childbirth complications]], then his newborn baby died (likely from the heat). Subverted when it turns out to be part of Norma's dream.
* DisneyDeath: Mrs. Bronson dies in Norma's dream, but turns out to be alive and well when Norma comes out of her delirium. Although neither she, nor Norma, nor anyone else on Earth will be alive for long...
* DownerEnding: Humanity is doomed to freeze to death in only a few weeks.
* EndlessDaytime: The Earth is spiraling closer and closer to the sun, and it is perpetually day. Except it turns out the main character is dreaming, and [[TheNightThatNeverEnds the Earth is actually spiraling AWAY from the sun and freezing.]] [[note]]In reality, for this trope to work, the Earth would have to become tidally-locked, meaning the other side would be constantly dark and probably somewhat less hot. But then, since it's AllJustADream, it doesn't have to make sense.[[/note]]
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: In both the dream and real life. It's made uncomfortably clear in both that all people can do is hold off the inevitable extinction of the Earth and everyone on it.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Mrs. Bronson tells Norma she heard on the radio that it's getting hotter because... the Earth is getting closer to the sun.
* FailedASpotCheck: Mrs. Bronson opens the door without hearing the front door shut, despite Norma just saying she wanted to hear the burglar leave through the front door.
* FeverDreamEpisode: Most of the episode is Norma dreaming while under a high fever.
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* AllJustADream: The episode's plot, where the world is ending because Earth heating up. Not is moving closer to the sun and is being bombarded with everlasting heat, was actually a dream that an ill and delirious Norma was having. Unfortunately, in reality, the reality isn't just as bad.
world is still going to end, because Earth is moving ''away'' from the sun and will ultimately freeze over completely.
* ApocalypseAnarchy: A news report early in the episode warns of looters and wanderingmaniacs.
maniacs prowling the New York streets, before he begins ranting about the end of the world and is forcibly taken off-air.
* ApocalypseHow:Already It's already a [[ApocalypseHow/Class1 Class 1]], guaranteed to become a [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX Class X]] with X]], as the Earth is spiraling closer and closer to the sun. Even with the end revelation, you're ending revelation that Earth is spiraling further and further from the sun, we're still looking at either a [[ApocalypseHow/Class5 5]] or [[ApocalypseHow/Class6 6]], maybe [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 4]] if life around close to hydrothermal vents survives.
* BigApplesauce: The episode is set inUsefulNotes/NewYorkCity.
UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, which has been largely abandoned as everyone moved to find colder temperatures.
* BottleEpisode: Except for two scenes in the hallway, the plot of the episode never leaves Norma's apartment.
* ChromosomeCasting: The sole male characters with speaking roles are the unseen news reporter, the looter, and the doctor.
* ComicBookAdaptation:This The episode was adapted as a graphic novel by Walker Paperback in 2009.
* CruelTwistEnding:The As per the doctor's exposition, Earth isn't moving ''towards'' the sun... it's sun. It's moving ''away'' from it.
* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: A radio DJ deviates from the script totell blurt out the reality of the situation, he gets situation. As a result, he's forcefully taken off the air.
* DeathOfAChild: The looter who breaksin into Norma's apartment and drinks all of Norma's the water she had left tells her that his wife [[DeathByChildbirth died from childbirth complications]], then and his newborn baby died soon after (likely from the heat). Subverted It's subverted when it turns out to be part of Norma's dream.
* DisneyDeath: Mrs. Bronson dies in Norma's dream, but she turns out to be alive and well when Norma comes out of her delirium.Although neither Neither she, nor Norma, nor anyone else on Earth will be alive for long...
long, unfortunately.
* DownerEnding:Humanity Earth is doomed to freeze to death into a giant ball of ice in only a few weeks.
weeks, ensuring that humanity goes extinct.
* EndlessDaytime: The Earth is spiraling closer and closer to the sun, andit as a result, there is perpetually day. Except it perpetual daylight outside. It turns out in the main character end that Norma is dreaming, and [[TheNightThatNeverEnds the Earth is actually spiraling AWAY from the sun and freezing.sun, meaning that it will freeze over.]] [[note]]In reality, for this trope to work, the Earth would have to become tidally-locked, meaning the other side would be constantly dark and probably somewhat less hot. But then, since it's AllJustADream, it doesn't have to make sense.[[/note]]
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt:In It occurs both the in Norma's dream via the planet plunging into the sun, and in real life. life via the planet hurdling away from the sun and freezing over. It's made uncomfortably clear in both scenarios that all people anyone can do is hold off the inevitable extinction destruction of the Earth and everyone on it.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Mrs. Bronson tells Norma that she heard on the radiothat why it's getting hotter because... hotter: because the Earth is getting closer to the sun.
* FailedASpotCheck: Mrs. Bronson opens the door without hearing the front doorshut, close, despite Norma just saying seconds ago that she wanted to hear the burglar looter leave through the front door.
* FeverDreamEpisode: Most of the episode is revealed to be the result of Norma dreaming while under a high fever.
* ApocalypseAnarchy: A news report early in the episode warns of looters and wandering
* ApocalypseHow:
* BigApplesauce: The episode is set in
* BottleEpisode: Except for two scenes in the hallway, the plot of the episode never leaves Norma's apartment.
* ChromosomeCasting: The sole male characters with speaking roles are the unseen news reporter, the looter, and the doctor.
* ComicBookAdaptation:
* CruelTwistEnding:
* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: A radio DJ deviates from the script to
* DeathOfAChild: The looter who breaks
* DisneyDeath: Mrs. Bronson dies in Norma's dream, but she turns out to be alive and well when Norma comes out of her delirium.
* DownerEnding:
* EndlessDaytime: The Earth is spiraling closer and closer to the sun, and
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt:
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Mrs. Bronson tells Norma that she heard on the radio
* FailedASpotCheck: Mrs. Bronson opens the door without hearing the front door
* FeverDreamEpisode: Most of the episode is revealed to be the result of Norma dreaming while under a high fever.
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** Norma says "I keep getting this crazy thought... this crazy thought that I'm gonna wake up and none of this will have happened."
** It seems odd that several characters are wearing long-sleeved clothes despite the scorching heat. [[spoiler: This foreshadows that Norma is dreaming]].
* GhostCity: New York City has been mostly evacuated due to the extreme heat as people are looking for cooler regions elsewhere.
* GlacialApocalypse: ZigZagged. The story takes place on a world where it's getting hotter and hotter because the Earth is getting closer and closer to the sun. But it turns out it's AllJustADream -- actually the Earth is getting colder and colder because it's moving ''away'' from the sun, and will eventually become an uninhabitable big ball of ice.
* {{Irony}}: In the final lines. Norma, having woken up, is speaking to her landlady Mrs. Bronson and, remembering her dream about crushing heat, fantasizes about coldness and darkness. In truth, excessive cold and dark are precisely what are going to kill the Earth.
** It seems odd that several characters are wearing long-sleeved clothes despite the scorching heat. [[spoiler: This foreshadows that Norma is dreaming]].
* GhostCity: New York City has been mostly evacuated due to the extreme heat as people are looking for cooler regions elsewhere.
* GlacialApocalypse: ZigZagged. The story takes place on a world where it's getting hotter and hotter because the Earth is getting closer and closer to the sun. But it turns out it's AllJustADream -- actually the Earth is getting colder and colder because it's moving ''away'' from the sun, and will eventually become an uninhabitable big ball of ice.
* {{Irony}}: In the final lines. Norma, having woken up, is speaking to her landlady Mrs. Bronson and, remembering her dream about crushing heat, fantasizes about coldness and darkness. In truth, excessive cold and dark are precisely what are going to kill the Earth.
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** Norma says "I keep getting this crazy thought... this thought. This crazy thought that I'm gonna wake up and none of this will have happened."
" That's indeed what happens in the end, but the end of the world is still going to occur.
** It seems odd that several characters are wearing long-sleeved clothesdespite in spite of the scorching heat. [[spoiler: This foreshadows that Norma is actually dreaming]].
* GhostCity: New York City has beenmostly nearly evacuated due to the extreme heat heat, as people are looking for packing up and travelling to cooler regions elsewhere.
regions.
* GlacialApocalypse: ZigZagged. Thestory episode takes place on in a world where it's getting hotter and hotter all the time because the Earth is getting closer and closer to the sun. But it It turns out it's AllJustADream -- actually the that this scenario is AllJustADream, but in actuality, Earth is getting colder and colder because it's moving ''away'' from the sun, and to the point where it will eventually become an uninhabitable big ball of ice.
* {{Irony}}: In thefinal lines. end, Norma, having woken up, is speaking to her landlady Mrs. Bronson and, remembering remembers her dream about the crushing heat, heat and fantasizes about coldness and darkness. In truth, this excessive cold and dark are precisely what are going to kill ''precisely'' what's causing the Earth.end of the world.
** It seems odd that several characters are wearing long-sleeved clothes
* GhostCity: New York City has been
* GlacialApocalypse: ZigZagged. The
* {{Irony}}: In the
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'''Mrs. Bronson''': ''(apprehensively)'' ...yes, dear. It's wonderful.
** If you look closely, Mrs. Bronson appears to be smiling when Norma says "a midnight sun, no night at all."
* MinimalistCast: Only seven characters show up in the entire episode.
* ReadingsBlewUpTheScale: The thermometer eventually bursts from the extreme heat.
* SanitySlippage: When she sees Norma's painting of a waterfall, Mrs. Bronson starts rambling about how wonderful waterfalls are and how they should go swimming in it, shortly before she collapses and dies.
* ScreamingWoman: Norma screams her lungs out as it becomes so hot her paintings began to melt.
* ThousandYardStare: As Norma recounts her nightmare about a world with a neverending sun, [[DramaticIrony she comments her relief that everything is cool again.]] Mrs. Bronson's only response is to stare off into the distance and agree [[BlatantLies how wonderful it is.]]
* TitleDrop: In the last lines of the episode.
* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: A weather reporter gradually goes totally off-script, though never raising his voice above "'50s radio reporter", passes along the idea that he's panicking people, but what the hell, and is last heard saying, "Let me alone. Let go of me," shortly followed by music.
* WhamShot: After the world heats up so much that Norma's paintings melt, it suddenly cuts to a snowy window, with the thermostat showing -10 degrees.
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->'''Rod Serling''': The poles of fear, the extremes of how the Earth might conceivably be doomed. Minor exercise in the care and feeding of a nightmare, respectfully submitted by all the thermometer-watchers in the Twilight Zone.
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** If you look closely, Mrs. Bronson appears to be smiling when Norma says "a midnight sun, no night at all."
* MinimalistCast: Only seven characters show up in the entire episode.
* ReadingsBlewUpTheScale: The thermometer eventually bursts from the extreme heat.
* SanitySlippage: When she sees Norma's painting of a waterfall, Mrs. Bronson starts rambling about how wonderful waterfalls are and how they should go swimming in it, shortly before she collapses and dies.
* ScreamingWoman: Norma screams her lungs out as it becomes so hot her paintings began to melt.
* ThousandYardStare: As Norma recounts her nightmare about a world with a neverending sun, [[DramaticIrony she comments her relief that everything is cool again.]] Mrs. Bronson's only response is to stare off into the distance and agree [[BlatantLies how wonderful it is.]]
* TitleDrop: In the last lines of the episode.
* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: A weather reporter gradually goes totally off-script, though never raising his voice above "'50s radio reporter", passes along the idea that he's panicking people, but what the hell, and is last heard saying, "Let me alone. Let go of me," shortly followed by music.
* WhamShot: After the world heats up so much that Norma's paintings melt, it suddenly cuts to a snowy window, with the thermostat showing -10 degrees.
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->'''Rod Serling''': The poles of fear, the extremes of how the Earth might conceivably be doomed. Minor exercise in the care and feeding of a nightmare, respectfully submitted by all the thermometer-watchers in the Twilight Zone.
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'''Mrs. Bronson''': ''(apprehensively)'' ...(''apprehensively'') ...yes, dear. It's wonderful.
** If you look closely, Mrs. Bronson appears to be smiling when Normasays describes "a midnight sun, no night at all."
* MinimalistCast: Only seven characters show upin throughout the entire episode.
* ReadingsBlewUpTheScale: The thermometer on Norma's wall eventually bursts from the extreme heat.
* SanitySlippage: When she sees Norma'spainting of latest painting, a waterfall, Mrs. Bronson starts rambling about how wonderful waterfalls are the water is and how they should go swimming in it, swimming, shortly before she collapses and dies.
* ScreamingWoman: Norma screamsher lungs out to no end as it becomes the heat increases drastically, becoming so hot that her paintings began to melt.
begin melting right off the canvas.
* ThousandYardStare: As Norma recounts her nightmare about a world with a neverending sun, [[DramaticIrony shecomments states her relief that everything is cool again.]] Mrs. Bronson's only response is to stare off into the distance and agree [[BlatantLies how wonderful it is.]]
is]], not having the heart to tell Norma that she and the rest of the world are still doomed.
* TitleDrop:In the The last lines of the episode.
episode, as Norma describes her dream.
* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: A weather reporter gradually goestotally off-script, though never raising his voice above "'50s "1950s radio reporter", reporter" levels, passes along the idea that he's panicking people, panicking, but what nothing matters with the hell, and is end of the world. He's last heard saying, "Let me alone. Let go of me," shortly followed by music.
struggling to fight back against the men who forcefully take him off air.
* WhamShot:After When the world heats up so much that Norma's paintings melt, it melt and the artist herself collapses, we suddenly cuts cut back to a snowy window, with the thermostat showing thermometer that burst in the scorching heat. It's fixed and now reads -10 degrees.
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degrees, as snow falls heavily outside the window.
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->'''Rod Serling''': The poles offear, the fear. The extremes of how the Earth might conceivably be doomed. Minor exercise in the care and feeding of a nightmare, respectfully submitted by all the thermometer-watchers in the Twilight Zone.
----Zone.
** If you look closely, Mrs. Bronson appears to be smiling when Norma
* MinimalistCast: Only seven characters show up
* ReadingsBlewUpTheScale: The thermometer on Norma's wall eventually bursts from the extreme heat.
* SanitySlippage: When she sees Norma's
* ScreamingWoman: Norma screams
* ThousandYardStare: As Norma recounts her nightmare about a world with a neverending sun, [[DramaticIrony she
* TitleDrop:
* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: A weather reporter gradually goes
* WhamShot:
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* ApocalypseHow: Already a [[ApocalypseHow/Class1 Class 1]], guaranteed to become a [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX Class X]] with the Earth spiraling closer and closer to the sun. Even with the end revelation, you're still looking at either a [[ApocalypseHow/Class5 5]] or [[ApocalypseHow/Class6 6]].
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* ApocalypseHow: Already a [[ApocalypseHow/Class1 Class 1]], guaranteed to become a [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX Class X]] with the Earth spiraling closer and closer to the sun. Even with the end revelation, you're still looking at either a [[ApocalypseHow/Class5 5]] or [[ApocalypseHow/Class6 6]].6]], maybe [[ApocalypseHow/Class4 4]] if life around hydrothermal vents survives.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Norma goes barefoot throughout the episode. {{Justified}}, considering how hot it is.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Norma goes barefoot throughout the episode. {{Justified}}, {{Justified|trope}}, considering how hot it is.
